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...they paraded to the stage in the Grand Palais to speak their thanks, usually in English, to the jury and its Asiaphile president, Quentin Tarantino. Maggie Cheung accepted the Best Actress scroll with her usual cool poise, while her director and ex-husband Olivier Assayas squirmed in his seat. The Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul solemnly dedicated his Prix du Jury (third place) for Tropical Malady to his recently deceased father. And so it went. Four of the eight award winners at this year's Cannes Film Festival were from East Asia. By the end of the ceremony the only surprise...
...Lempicka and her husband fled to Paris to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917. She studied painting under the Cubist Andr? Lhote and hoped to earn a living from her work, but she did more than merely get by. Her career took off as she managed to secure celeb sitters; her own beauty and dress sense helped her gain entry into the best circles, but she also worked long hours. Her style fused the severe with the alluring: her young women may have geometrically simplified arms, perfect cones for breasts and hair that seems sculpted from sheets of steel...
...second husband, art collector Baron Raoul Kuffner, emigrated to the U.S., and her glittering career came to an abrupt end as the Art Deco style reached its sell-by date. But she lived to see the rediscovery of her between-the-wars work in the '70s and its acclaim by a new generation, before dying in Mexico in 1980. It's said her last wish was to have her ashes scattered in the crater of the volcano Popocat?petl?a fitting gesture to end a flamboyant life...
...Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering, she relented. With her victory, her son Rahul, 33, declared that the family had finally...
BORN. APPLE BLYTHE ALISON MARTIN, 9 lbs. 11 oz., first child to actress GWYNETH PALTROW, 31, and rocker husband CHRIS MARTIN, 26; in London...